Re: Disk buffer / memory utilization

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 11/01/04

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    Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:35:43 -0600
To: "R. Payette" <premi@altern.org>

    R. Payette wrote:
    >>
    >> I'm not sure you'll really get rid of the 14M Buffers, but you might
    >> be able to reduce them - what does:
    >> sysctl kern.maxusers
    >> report?
    >>
    >> Is this box solely for compiling? Or is it an NFS server, or web
    >> server, etc?
    >>
    >
    > used to be 32, after reading tuning, I reduced it to 16. No, if not
    > mainly for compiling, I build world, kernel and ports on it. It's main
    > usage is a nat router for our dsl connexion, and a webserver with mysql
    > for a small web site ( 10 visit / day maximum ).

    Ok, well, running mysql is going to gobble up some memory, so beware of
    that. For that little amount of visits per day, I think I'd check into
    another db system, something that is less memory hungry (Berkely DB?).

    >> From what I see, there is probably still some stuff that can be
    >> removed. Do you need eisa support? NFS? MSDOSFS? IPV6?
    >>
    >
    > I just removed eisa, msdosfs and ipv6 but I need nfs. After recompile
    > and reboot, I gained a little bit and here is the ps -auxw
    > http://massonerie.kicks-ass.org/psauxw
    >
    > also, the 12th line of dmesg says :
    > http://massonerie.kicks-ass.org/dmesg

    Your site was not coming up for me, so I can't tell.

    > ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor.
    >
    > but kldstat says acpi.ko is loaded. Is it safe to disable it ?

    yes, you can turn off ACPI (in /boot/loader.conf) safely.

    Eric 

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